Norton: 'It's a hoot playing twins'

Edward Norton has revealed that he enjoyed playing two very different identical twins in an upcoming comedy thriller.

The star plays brothers Bill and Brady Kincaid, one a drug dealer and the other a classical philosophy professor, in Leaves Of Grass.

He told Parade: "It's sort of a hoot because the credits could be Edward Norton stars with Edward Norton.

"It's my first attempt to actually play two characters in the same film and it was an enormous amount of fun."

He added: "I think it was one of the most entertaining movies I've done in a long time. People start laughing right at the top. It's always good when you get a good audience reaction.

"But it blows all your aspirations for dramatic credibility out the window and you just realise how much fun it is to have a room full of people laughing at you."